Alta Election

CALGARY - Wildrose Leader Danielle Smith has offered her staunchest defence yet of two candidates whose race-based comments and anti-gay writings have seized the agenda during the last week of a pitch...

When Alberta voters go to the polls on Monday, they could bring an end to a 41-year Progressive Conservative dynasty and turn to a largely untested group of politicians who say they want to return the...

After trailing in the polls by a wide margin for the first two weeks of the campaign, Alberta's Progressive Conservatives appear to have closed the gap with Danielle Smith's Wildrose Party. A new surv...

CALGARY - Wildrose Leader Danielle Smith moved Tuesday to snuff out a controversy surrounding her beliefs on social issues by affirming she is pro-choice and pro-gay rights."When our members elected m...

EDMONTON - Alberta's Progressive Conservatives, looking for an edge in a pitched election battle against the Wildrose party, seem to have declared war on old, white guys.Tory strategists, in comments...

EDMONTON - Alberta Wildrose Leader Danielle Smith says if she becomes premier there will be free votes on all bills in the legislature, even on those that could bring her government down.Free votes ar...

EDMONTON - Elections Alberta says it has received so many complaints about robocalls that it is investigating whether political parties may be behind them and if they're following the rules.Director D...

CALGARY - The two front-runners in Alberta's election campaign have already taken pains to make it clear that the province's oil capital is no more or less important than any other region.Danielle Smi...

EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Alison Redford dropped the writ Monday on an election campaign between two right-centre heavyweights who both promise to build bridges with Ottawa and not tinker with the ca...